There is a difference between art and life and that 
difference is readability.  
		- Marian Engel 

    Surely where there's smoke there's fire?  No, where 
there's so much smoke there's smoke.  
		- John A. Wheeler 

    Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of 
experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, 
and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to 
ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, 
to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which 
ought to be deliberately ignored.  
		- Sir Ronald A. Fisher 

    The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it 
is comprehensible.  
		- Albert Einstein 

    We should have had socialism already, but for the 
socialists.  
		- George Bernard Shaw 

    It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.  
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead 
of theories to suit facts.  
		- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

    By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and 
it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the 
firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or 
too direct. 
		- E.A. Poe  
		- The Murders in the Rue Morgue 

    It's an experience like no other experience I can 
describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, 
realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind 
exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature.  It's 
startling every time it occurs.  One is surprised that a 
construct of one's own mind can actually be realized in the 
honest-to-goodness world out there.  A great shock, and a 
great, great joy.  
		- Leo Kadanoff 

    I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for 
remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the 
top.  
		- Frank Moore Colby 

    Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great 
deal worse.  
		- Miguel De Cervantes 

    He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and 
sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper.  
		- Edmund Burke 

    There was a blithe certainty that came from first 
comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of 
Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web.  
They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of 
squiggles.  Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they 
contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, 
collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- 
potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that 
was a sublime experience.  The iron fist of the real, inside 
the velvet glove of airy mathematics.  
		- Gregory Benford  
		- Timescape 

   I could never sleep my way to the top / 'Cause my alarm 
clock always wakes me right up.  
		- They Might Be Giants  
		- Hey, Mr D.J., I Thought You Said We Had a Deal

    One grows tired of jelly babies, Castellan.  One grows 
tired of almost everything, Castellan, except power.  
		- The Doctor  
		- The Invasion of Time 

    No matter how hard you try, there is always going to be 
someone more underground than you.  
		- Robert Fulford 

    Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to 
counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in 
her work.  
		- Pliny The Elder 

    Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.  
		- Rudyard Kipling 

    Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there 
are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and 
by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.  
		- Mitchell Feigenbaum 

    It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence 
of discoveries, and these are to be seen nowhere more 
conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the 
ancients, and of which the origin, though recent, is obscure 
and inglorious; namely, printing, gunpowder and the magnet 
[i.e. Mariner's Needle].  For these three have changed the 
whole face and state of things throughout the world.  
		- Francis Bacon 

    And if you give us any more trouble I shall visit you in 
the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress.  
		- Basil Fawlty 
		- Mrs. Richards 

    Predicting the future, as we all know, is risky.  
Predicting the evolution of new technology is downright 
hazardous.  
		- Leon Cooper 

    An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, 
but a master craftsman employs many precision tools.  Computer 
programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with 
the complexity of real applications, and only practice with 
these tools will build skill in their use.  
		- Robert L. Kruse 
		- Data Structures and Program Design